jdunlap@milton.u.washington.edu (John Dunlap) (11/20/90)
I have an HP-9000 series 500 with HP-UX 5.21 and Wollongong TCP/IP as well as an HP-9000 model 375. Most of the terminal ports are on the 500 but the 375 is faster so people use it more via rlogin. Mostly we are happy, but the response to a control-C is exceedingly slow when a voluminous resonse to the screen is arriving: the output to the screen just keeps on coming. This is very annoying and time consuming. What steps can I take to cause the unwanted part of the response to be discarded? John Dunlap Applied Physics Lab, Univ of Washington, (206) 543-7207 dunlap@apl.washington.edu
lrb@rrivax.rri.uwo.ca (Lance R. Bailey) (11/20/90)
In article <11382@milton.u.washington.edu>, jdunlap@milton.u.washington.edu (John Dunlap) writes... >I have an HP-9000 series 500 with HP-UX 5.21 and Wollongong TCP/IP > ... >Mostly we are happy, but the response to a control-C is exceedingly >slow when a voluminous resonse to the screen is arriving: the >output to the screen just keeps on coming. > ... >What steps can I take to cause the unwanted part of the >response to be discarded? > you can't. we do close to the same thing here. if a person grabs a tty physically attached to the wrong computer, then they type the name of the one they want and a telnet and/or rlogin to the correct machine is done. (ie: at the login: they type VAX, and at a Username: they type HP) the problem is that when you hit ^C there has been a lot of stuff already sent to you and by the time ^C reaches the host, even more. this info still gets sent (the problem is even worse on a 2400 dial-up.) i beleive FUSION software has a priority packet system that sends certain characters (^C &c.) to the server BEFORE all other queued packets. this works pretty well. some IP servers (annex for eg.) also play some tricks to stop the flow after a ^C is hit. this is the route i am taking. Lance R. Bailey, Systems Manager ================================ box: Robarts Research Institute email: lrb@rri.uwo.ca Clinical Trials Resources Group fax: 519.663.3789 P.O. Box 5015, 100 Perth Dr. vox: 519.663.3787 ext. 4108 London, Canada N6A 5K8